Carver - The Newer, More English Version

Genesis Genesis 1 In the beginning was the singularity, and the singularity was infinitely dense and infinitely hot, And the singularity expanded and the singularity cooled and there was chaos, And of the primeval atom was born the Universe. And the Universe was matter and antimatter, and baryogenesis was violated and matter annihilated antimatter until only matter remained, And matter resolved into hydrogen, and after hydrogen came helium and deuterium and all elements, And with elements came mass and with mass came gravity, And gravity caused gas clouds to form into stars and planets and moons, And gravity caused planets to revolve around stars, and moons around planets, And on some planets the elements manifested as water and as earth, and there were seas and lands and atmosphere, And the orbit of planets cast days and nights and the orbit of moons pulled tides, and of the imperfection of orbits sprung seasons, And of the chemistry on one particular planet, and maybe others also, came nucleic acids, and nucleic acids were good. Now nucleic acids were unlike other molecules, and nucleic acids were loosely replicable, And in the disorder and the richness on the earth the nucleic acids became numerous, And the nucleic acids all were different. And of the chemistry also came proteins and proteins too were unlike other molecules, And some proteins encased and some protected and some catalysed nucleic acids, and it was good. And from the proteins and the nucleic acids and the symbiosis thereof was borne life. And each life needed raw material to replicate, and those with most raw material became most common, And as time passed and generations of lifes came and went simplifications and complexities arose by chance, And some garnered more raw material and some garnered less and the fittest survived.

And in time life begat ur-cells and those ur-cells lived and replicated and evolved through luck and circumstances, And of those ur-cells came photoynthesisers and fungi and algae and all sorts, And by the same force multiple celled constructs arose and flourished and in time all forms of squirming masses and photosynthesisers. And so in time from the first nucleic acid came animals that lived on the land and those that lived in the air, and plants that lived in the sea and plants that lived on the land, and all forms of complications and devices permitted. But as the lifes thrived a terrible event did come to pass, and ninety-five of every hundred of the species of creatures then alive were destroyed. But the squirming masses and photosynthesisers did recover, and the ecosystem did rebuild, and the dinosaurs did have dominion. And as the climate shifted and niches moved, birds and mammals and grass did evolve and dinosaurs extinguished. And of the multitude did emerge an ur-hominid, whose seed would come to have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth.

Genesis 2 And in Eden, at the head of the Euphrates, grew plants and trees with abundant food, And the ur-hominid gathered the fruits of the garden, and the ur-hominid ate what he wished. But there were plants he did not wish to eat; the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he did not touch, For the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was known to poison and to void the primitive mind of the ur-hominid. And the ur-hominid learned to communicate with his brethren and to name the beasts and the herbs, And the ur-hominid learned to fashion herbs and bones and rocks according to his needs, And the ur-hominid used his tools and his tongue to great effect and his dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the grasses and trees and herbs and every living thing that moveth increased, And the ur-hominid learned to shape his world according to his thoughts, And from the ur-hominid came a hominid, and it was good. And it came to pass that the hominid dwelled together with his mate and together they gathered the fruits and hunted the beasts of the garden, and raised their offspring, And the hominid thought the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was poison, for his forebears had suffered from it and his forebears had spoken of it. And his mate knew of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and his mate thought that surely it would poison her. Genesis 3 And as the hominid learned to shape his world, so the world shaped the hominid, And it came to pass one day that the female named Eve felt compelled to taste fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and to open her eyes and know of good and of evil, And the male named Adam took the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and tried it also.

And Adam and Eve were not poisoned, and Adam and Eves minds were not rendered void, And Adam and Eve saw visions and opened their eyes and their minds and knew they were alive, and naked. And Adam and Eve enjoyed the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and thenceforth they partook of it on occasion with great ceremony and great joy, And the ceremony and joy gave unity to the man and woman and their brethren and in unity they prospered. And with prosperity and ceremony came wise men and rituals also, And in time man and womans dominion over the creatures and the plants led to husbandry and tillage, And man and woman together tilled the ground and kept sheep, and the innocence of days gone by was lost. Genesis 3A And on other rivers in other gardens ur-hominids lived and gathered the fruits and hunted the beasts. And the ur-hominids learned to speak with his brethren and to give names to the beasts and herbs they ate, And the ur-hominids learned to fashion herbs and bones and rocks according to their needs, And the ur-hominids used their tools and their tongues to great effect and their dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the grasses and trees and herbs and over every living thing that groweth increased, And the ur-hominids learned to shape their world according to their thoughts, And from the ur-hominids came hominids, and it was good. But in those other gardens on those other rivers there was no tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and those hominids kept their innocence and their minds held closed and there was no ceremony, no joy and no unity.

And they did not prosper, and it was not good. Genesis 4 And of the original man and woman descended two distinct families, And Cains family tilled the ground, and Abels family kept sheep, and by this division these families grew distant and rivalrous. And they ceased to be each others brethren and ceased to inter-breed, and instead tribalised and speciated, And the keepers of the sheep grew in number and in strength and the tillers of the ground were afraid. And the tillers of the ground understood that something must be done, And the tillers of the ground invented the doctrine of pre-emptive warfare, And the tillers of the ground attacked and slew the keepers of the sheep and destroyed their species, And Cains tillers of the land spread far and wide to dwell in all the lands then known, and no more had fear of the keepers of the sheep for genocide had been accomplished, And there were recriminations and inquests as they knew pre-emptive war was wrong. But the inquest proved nothing and Cains tillers of the land multiplied and spread across the land, And such were the numbers of the tillers of the land and such was the success in the tilling of the land that there was surplus production, And surplus production meant not all the people were needed for the tilling of the land, And, lo, those skilled in making tills stuck to making tills and did learn to barter, And those skilled in building dwellings also bartered, And markets were established and around the markets grew settlements. And the city Enoch was founded, and in the unity and the excess of the city, And in the happiness of peace after the killing of the keepers of the sheep, the tillers of the land turned their minds and hands to learning.